Solovey, Mark, Dayé, Christian (Eds.) Cold War Social Science - Transnational Entanglements. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2021. ISBN 978-3-030-70245-8

 

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Considers the impact of the Cold War's transnational dimensions on social science

Gathers contributions exploring a wide range of fields, from anthropology to political science

Broadens our understanding of Cold War social science beyond nation-centered approaches

This book explores how the social sciences became entangled with the global Cold War. While duly recognizing the realities of nation states, national power, and national aspirations, the studies gathered here open up new lines of transnational investigation. Considering developments in a wide array of fields – anthropology, development studies, economics, education, political science, psychology, science studies, and sociology – that involved the movement of people, projects, funding, and ideas across diverse national contexts, this volume pushes scholars to rethink certain fundamental points about how we should understand – and thus how we should study – Cold War social science itself.